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GO TO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does go to mean?
• GO TO (verb)
The verb GO TO has 1 sense:
1. be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.
Familiarity information: GO TO used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
attend; go to
Context example:
did you go to the meeting?
Hypernyms (to "go to" is one way to...):
be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)
Domain category:
church; church service (a service conducted in a house of worship)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go to"):
sit in (attend as a visitor)
worship (attend religious services)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
"But there was no way to go to the white man's country," said Zilla.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Her lips moved, and though they formed no words, she commanded me with her eyes, plainly as speech, to go to the help of the unfortunate man.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Manlike, they had told me to go to bed and sleep; as if a woman can sleep when those she loves are in danger!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Oh! but the gentlemen will have Mr. Bingley's chaise to go to Meryton, and the Hursts have no horses to theirs.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
No doubt you will go to the prison to see James.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then go to London and test your conclusions.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"How long would I have to study before I could go to the university?" he asked.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I told you that you should go to Blackheath first and Norwood afterwards.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Martha wants,” she said to Ham, “to go to London.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Amy rebelled outright, and passionately declared that she had rather have the fever than go to Aunt March.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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